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World No Tobacco Day was created by the World Health Organization (WHO) and takes place every year on the 31st May. What is the aim of World No Tobacco Day? The World Health Organization (WHO) [...]

Children’s Hospice Week (CHW) is currently the only awareness and fundraising week for children with serious conditions, of its kind. These children’s hospices greatly need support and [...]

Brain Injury Awareness Week is extremely important in educating people about the dangers of brain injury. The brain is one of the great wonders of the world, controlling everything we do, [...]

This NICE key therapeutic topic was updated in February 2018 and summarises the evidence base on medicines optimisation in long-term pain, in order that the right medication is being used for [...]

This NICE clinical guideline was updated in December 2017 and covers recognising and diagnosing autism spectrum disorder in children and young people from birth up to 19 years. It also covers [...]

This NICE guidance was published in January 2018 and covers diagnosing and managing age-related macular degeneration (AMD) in adults. It aims to improve the speed at which people are diagnosed [...]

This NICE quality standard was published in February 2018 and covers recognising, assessing and managing mental health problems in adults (aged 18 and over) who are in contact with the criminal [...]

This NICE quality standard was published in February 2018 and covers the management of Parkinson’s disease in adults. It makes five quality statements: Point of contact with specialist services [...]

The Care Quality Commission has recently published a report on ‘The State of Care in Independent Acute Hospitals’. It is the first inspection of its kind and now gives an in-depth look at the [...]

The Policy Research Unit in Economic Evaluation of Health and Care Interventions (EEPRU) has conducted a report on the ‘Prevalence and economic burden of medication errors in the NHS in England’, [...]